Joss Whedon Short Quotes

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Joss: Um, no. Dead Buffy's a Buffy. But a dead one.

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I have had a dream my whole life... and it was not this good.

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If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do.

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Very occasionally, if you really pay attention, life doesn't suck.

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The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever.

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I'm working on Buffy: Deep Space Nine. It will be dark and badly received.

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People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else.

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Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones.

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The idea of changing culture is important to me, and it can only be done in a popular medium.

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If I ever did a rom-com, it'd be about an orgy. I cannot do anything except ensemble-pieces. It's awful!

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It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?

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My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer... and there are flying cars.

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Addressing a question he often receives:
'Why do you write these strong female characters?' 'Because you're still asking me that question'.

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All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet — it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

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I believe we are the only sentient beings in the universe, and I believe that 500 years from now, we will still be the only sentient beings around.

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There is nothing more painful in the world than Aly when she makes her big eyes. She makes her big hurt eyes, there's nothing you can do. She just kills you.

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I believe the only reality is how we treat each other. The morality comes from the absence of any grander scheme, not from the presence of any grander scheme.

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People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.
After Whedon's discovery that The WB had cancelled Angel

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